Ammi (English) toothpick

Japanese: アンミ(英語表記)tooth‐pick
Ammi (English) toothpick
An annual plant of the Apiaceae family that grows to about 30-100cm (illustration). It has long been a folk medicine in Egypt and North Africa, and illustrations and descriptions can be found in Dioscorides's "Drugs Book." It produces finely divided leaves that resemble carrots. It produces numerous scattered flowers in summer and has oblong fruits. In Egypt, these fruits are called khella or khella fruit. It contains the furochromone derivatives khellin (active ingredient), visnagin, visamminol, khellolglucoside, and the coumarin derivatives samidin and dihydrosamidin.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:
30~100cmほどになるセリ科の一年草(イラスト)。古くはエジプトを中心とした北アフリカの民間薬で,ディオスコリデスの《薬物誌》にも図と説明がみられる。細裂した葉を出し,ニンジンに似る。夏季に散形状に多数の花をつけ,果実は長楕円形。この果実をエジプトでケラkhella,あるいはケラ実という。フロクロモン誘導体ケーリンkhellin(有効成分),ビスナギンvisnagin,ビスアンミノールvisamminol,ケロールグルコシドkhellolglucoside,クマリン誘導体サミジンsamidin,ジヒドロサミジンdihydrosamidinなどを含む。

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